DOD GPS CIO Mission Support Services (CMSS)

Provide management, programmatic and systems engineering support services for the DoD Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Enterprise, including national security, civil, commercial, and international cooperative aspects involved in acquisition, deployment/fielding, and operation of all DoD GPS, PNT and Navwar systems.

The DoD CIO is responsible for DoD PNT (including radio navigation systems) policy oversight and planning, for DoD participation in Federal PNT and radio navigation system policy development and planning and for GPS and Navigation Warfare (Navwar) policy, program oversight and planning. Both Congressional legislation and Presidential directives have mandated that the proliferation of federally provided radio navigation systems be reduced and that the DoD-provided GPS be promoted as both a national and international standard, dual-use (military and civil) PNT system.